Vitreous drawer pull



July 24, 1928.

A. c. CRIMMEL VITREOUS DRAWER PULL Filed March 28, 1927 fin 1 INVENTOR.

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UNITED T-IEITS 1,678,498 QOEFHQE- ALVIE o. enmmnn'or HARTFORD CITY, INDIANA.

. .vrmnous DRAWER PULL.

This invention relates to a vitljeous ob.- ject anchorage.

The chief object of this invention. is to provide a vitreous orcrystal object, with ferrule means, whereby the imperfectionsor unevenness in ,theobject is compensated for and the ferrule has a sufficient aingnlnt of compressibleness therein, whereby inthe anchorage of the object to: a supportthedesired compression can be obtained without fracture or cracking ofthe vitreous object by reason of the strain.

The invention is illustrated as applied to a vitreous object of the. general character shown in the prior Patent No. 1,478,381, dated December 25, 1923.

It has been found that owing to unevenness in the face of the drawer pull disclosed in the beforementioned patent, said unevenness being due to the shrinkage, expansion or warpage of the support, that there is intro duced into the drawer pull a strain sufficient to crack the glass if the same has not been cracked in initially anchoring the pull to a support. The compressibleness of the ferrule takes the strain initially applied or subsequently set up and does not transmit it to the vitreous object with the result that cracking or fracture of the latter does not occur.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claim.

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the invention shown applied to a drawer pull. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through a support with the drawer pull including the invention anthrough one of the anchorages.

In the drawings 10 indicates a body portion of a vitreous or crystalline object which may be of glass and may be transparent, or

translucent, or clear, or colored as desired.

The body 10 includes a substantially senilelliptical opening 11 therein and defining the same and projecting therefrom 1s a grasping portion 12 forming a linger receivable pocket 13 therebeneath. Herein the body 10 is provided with a plurality of openings 14, each of which receives a ferrule, grommet or bushing 16 having the central opening 17. Extending through each of the bushings is an anchorage which in Fig. 3, is shown as a screw bolt 18, the same chored thereto, the section being taken passing through an opening 19 in thefront 20of a drawer and beingmounted upomsaid supporter drawer by thenut 21 bearing on Washer 22. H

The handle and the-body portion areintegral and ofsubstantially solid vitreousmaterial throughout. Through unevencooling or for any other reason .the back ofsthe body portion may notbe substantially, flat or lie in a flat plane. If screws .or screw bolts were applied .to such a ,vitreous object to anchor the sameto a truly fiat surface the entire object, or certainly the body portion defining the aperture or anchorage receiving openings 15 therein, would fracture. The addition of the relatively compressible grommet, however, will permit the employment of the desired compression or force necessary to secure relatively rigid or solid anchorage of the body portion to a substantially flat support since the unevenness of the body portion will be compensated by compression of the grommet. Furthermore, even if the back face of the body portion was a substantially true plane, then the face of the support might not be a true plane. This reverse condition would result in the invariable fracturing of the body portion when the attempt to anchor the same to the support was made. If both are uneven, of course, the variation and danger is accentuated. If both the back of the body portion and the face of the support to anchor the same are initially fiat, subsequent drying may result in warpage of the support if wood, or the support may warp through other reasons such as expansion or contrac tion so that even though no initial strain be placed upon the vitreous article and it be satisfactorily anchored to the support subsequent warpage will introduce a strain and impose the same upon the body portion and result in the fracture thereof, as set forth. The use of the grommets in each instance substantially prevents any fracturin of the body portion in its anchorage or wien anchored by reason of any of the aforesaid conditions.

Merely by way of illustration is the vitreous article shown as a drawer pull for the invention may be applied to any other shaped article wherein a multiple anchorage is obtainable which takes all stress between anchorages.

In addition to providing a solid bearing at a plurality of points, each eyelet tends to keep the anchorage such as a screw from biting into the glass drawer pull in the event the screws encounter any cross grain texture in the wood, any knots or anything else that might have a tendency to throw the screw from one side to another so that it would not go in perfectly straight. Also in the event that the screw is started crooked the eyelet takes care of this and prevents the screw from engaging the corners of the opening and breaking or cracking the drawer pull at this point and rendering it w0rthless.

The invention claimed is:

In a compensating drawer pull mounting a substantially integral rigid body consisting solely of a fragile vitreous material and provided with a plurality of substantially spaced openings extending therethrough at considerable distance apart for multiple anchorage upon a support, a relatively rigid one-piece slightly compressible ferrule receivableby each opening and projecting at its ends beyond the adjacent surface of the body, an outwardly directed flange on each end of the ferrule lying wholly beyond the adjacent surface of the body, one flange being engageable by an anchorage member and the other flange being engageable by the support for anchoring the body upon the support, and simultaneously for preventing cracking'of the vitreous body immediately adjacent the openings or therebetween in the act of mounting the body upon the support or after the body is mounted and while on said support.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto afliXed my signature.

ALVIE C. CRIMMEL. 

